2012年5月19日雅思阅读机经考题.pdf

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 2012年5月19日雅思阅读机经考题 下面是2012年5月12日雅思阅读机经的内容，包括了这次考试涉及 到的有一种耕地机械(新题)，violin (新题)，Voynich Manuscript (09 年6月27日的老题)等非常流行的阅读话题。为了更好的备考雅思阅读考 试，我们一起来看看这三篇雅思阅读考题的内容吧。 Reading Passage 1 Title: 一种耕地机械（新题） Question types: 填空；简答题；True/False/Not Given 文章内容回顾 关于某个英国人发明的犁地机，改进了农业播种。 英文原文阅读 Legend has it that sometime toward the end of the Civil War (1861-1865) a government train carrying oxen traveling through the northern plains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstorm and had to be abandoned. The driver returned the next spring to see what had become of his cargo. Instead of the skeletons he had expected to find, he saw his oxen, living, fat, and healthy. How had they survived? The answer lay in a resource that unknowing Americans lands trampled underfoot in their haste to cross the Great American Desert to reach lands that sometimes proved barren. In the eastern parts of the United States, the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant. It grew well with enough rain, then when cut and stored it would cure and become nourishing hay for winter feed. But in the dry grazing lands of the West that familiar bluejoint grass was often killed by drought. To raise cattle out there seemed risky or even hopeless. Who could imagine a fairy-tale grass that required no rain and somehow made it possible for cattle to feed themselves all winter? But the surprising western wild grasses did just that. They had wonderfully convenient features that made them superior to the cultivated eastern grasses. Variously known as buffalo grass, grama grass, or mesquite grass, not only were they immune to drought; but they were actually preserved by the lack of summer and autumn rains. They were not juicy like the cultivated eastern grasses, but had short, hard stems. And they did not need to be cured in a barn, but dried right where they grew on the ground. When they dried in this way, they remained naturally sweet and nourishing through the winter. Cattle left outdoors to fend f